Good for tech: Disability expertise and labor in China's artificial intelligence sector
Good for tech: Disability expertise and labor in China's artificial intelligence sector
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DOI：
10.5210/fm.v28i1.12887
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2023-01
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Di Wu
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Di Wu
残疾人常常被视为“被给予”工作机会，而不是“提供”有价值的劳动力。本文以残疾数据工作者作为参与中国人工智能（AI）系统日常建设的专家为中心，表明残疾专业知识和劳动力可以在一定的政治经济中为人工智能系统提供技术优势。在所研究的案例中，对智能家居系统模糊数据和难以捉摸的规则的一致同步解释的工作更喜欢具有协调认知和训练有素的判断力的稳定注释劳动力。这种技术需求已经由一支由熟练残疾工人组成的忠诚团队来满足，他们被系统性的残疾歧视从主流就业市场推出，并被残疾知识专业知识所吸引，重新配置空间、时间和政治经济，以满足非规范的身体思想。通过这个由残疾人主导的组织运作的特殊案例，我提请人们注意残疾人作为信息技术系统构建者（而不是用户、受害者或灵感来源）的角色，这一角色受到了充分的审视，并强调了残疾人专业知识的变革潜力。
People with disabilities are often perceived as being “given” the opportunity to work, rather than “providing” valuable labor. Centering on disabled data workers as experts involved in the quotidian construction of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in China, this article shows that disability expertise and labor can afford a technical edge to AI systems in a certain political economy. In the case examined, the work of consistently synchronizing interpretations of the ambiguous data and elusive rules of smart home systems prefers a stable annotation workforce with coordinated cognition and trained judgment. This technical demand has come to be met by a committed team of skilled disabled workers, who are pushed out from mainstream job market by systemic ableism, and pulled in by disability-informed expertise that reconfigures space, time, and political economy to meet non-normative bodyminds. Through this exceptional case run by a disabled people led organization, I draw attention to disabled people’s under-examined role as system-builders of information technologies as opposed to users, victims, or inspirations, and highlight the transformative potential of disability expertise.